Use logrotate to poll nginx and Apache logs

Use logrotate to poll nginx and Apache Log document directories [Hide]

• Configure nginx
• Configure Apache

Using logrotate to poll logs is convenient and easy to configure.

Configure nginx

1. Create the/etc/logrotate. d/nginx file.

1. VI/etc/logrotate. d/nginx

2. Write the following content:

1. /Var/log/nginx/* log {
2. Daily
3. Rotate 10
4. Missingok
5. Notifempty
6. Compress
7. Sharedscripts
8. Postrotate
9. [! -F/var/run/nginx. pid] | kill-usr1 'cat/var/run/nginx. PID'
10. Endscript
11. }

Note:
/Var/log/nginx/* log: The Log Path needs to be poll.
Daily: Round Robin every day
Rotate 10: Keep up to 10 scrolling logs
Missingok: If the log is lost, no error is reported to continue rolling the next log.
Receivempty: Do not scroll when the log is empty on the current day
Compress: Old logs are compressed by gzip by default.
/Var/run/nginx. PID: nginx master process PID

Configure Apache

1. /Var/log/httpd/* log {
2. Missingok
3. Notifempty
4. Sharedscripts
5. Postrotate
6. /Sbin/service httpd reload>/dev/null 2>/dev/null | true
7. Endscript
8. }

For more information, see https://www.centos.bz/2011/12/logrotate-nginx-log/.

Use logrotate to poll nginx and Apache logs